Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 29%
Phone interview: 21%
One on one interview: 14%
Personality test: 14%
Group panel interview: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Presentation: 7%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Process was fine but recruiters took too long. There were many stages including initial recruiter call, online assessment, phone screen, onsite, and finally offer stage and between some stages weeks would go without proper responses from the recruiters handling my file.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leadership principles, describe how each one relates to your experience
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.